Congratulations to Conor Skehan(Fermoy RC) who won his first Men's Open's Singles title this weekend at the Fermoy Open (Sat 14th & Sun 15th May). The Touraneena native defeated Fermoy's Patrick Hanley in the final on the scoreline 15-12, 14-15, 15-8, 15-8.  This was the first tournament held in Ireland using the new scoring system 'rally scoring' where a point is awarded to the winner of each rally.
In the semi-finals, Skehan defeated no 2 seed Johnny O'Keeney while Hanley defeated current All Ireland Champion Noel O'Callaghan.
In the Women's Singles, Aisling Hickey(Rossmore) continued her good form. The 10th time in a row All Ireland Champion defeated Majella Haverty(Castlebar) in the final 15-11, 15-13, 15-11.
Photo: Conor Skehan & Aisling Hickey.

At the All Ireland Singles & Doubles Championships held in the Co Cork venues of Fermoy, Mitchelstown, Araglen and Kilworth on Saturday 23rd & Sunday 24th April,  Fermoy's Noel O'Callaghan won his 25th All Ireland Men's Singles title.  O'Callaghan faced Mark Murphy(Kilkenny) in the final but shortly after the opening rallies, Murphy went down injured and was unable to continue.
Aisling Hickey(Rossmore) recorded her 10th All Ireland Women's Singles win in a row when she defeated Castlebar's Majella Haverty by 2 games to nil.
In the Men's Open Doubles, Johnny O'Keeney and Darragh O'Donoghue took the title when they defeated Padraic Ryder and Conor Skehan(Newport & Fermoy) in the final. The match went to the tiebreaker but is was the Fermoy & Araglen partnership who prevailed in the end.
Consolation for Majella Haverty and her Castlebar clubmate Katie Kenny when they won the Women's Open Doubles with a victory over Arklow sisters Antonia Neary and Susan Farrell. This match also went to a tiebreaker.
Ken Cottrell(Galmoy) in winning the Men's B Singles became one of the few players to have his name inscribed on every divisional singles cup uo to and including B Singles. He defeated Araglen's Keelan O'Gorman in the final.
Waterford's Jack Skehan playing in the Araglen club's colours won the Men's C Singles  defeating Scot Young of Arklow in the Final.
However for Scott Young, the Men's D Singles title was his with a 2 -0 victory over Mike Lynch playing for Moycullen.
There was no Women's B Singles or C Singles but the D Singles was contested and Kathleen Conway (Castlebar) was crowned the champion. Sabieta Lynch won the silver.
Arklow Racquetball Club won its second All Ireland Singles of the weekend title when James Smith had a 2 -0 win over Dara McNamara of Mitchelstown in the Men's Novice Singles Final..  The Men's Novice B Singles title was won by Enda Gannon (Clogh).
The Women's Novice Singles was a competitive division and Niamh Murphy became the first Templeudigan player to win a racquetball All Ireland Championship. She defeated Tara Carey of Araglen in the final to become the Women's Novice Singles Champion. Ciara Noonan(Fermoy) was the winners of The Novice B Singles.
Veterans Jimmy Gannon and Michael Lynch (Arklow & Tralee) were crowned All Ireland Intermediate Doubles Champions following their 2-0 win over Don Lawlor(Clogh) and Mike Lynch(Moycullen).
Jimmy Sheridan(Ballinrobe) and Tim O'Connor(Tralee) teamed up to make successful partnership in becoming All Ireland Champions in Novice Doubles while Tara Carey(Araglen) and Abbie O'Meara(Fermoy) are the All Ireland Champions in Women's Novice Doubles.

After missing two years due the covid-19 pandemic, this weekend 23rd & 24thnh April, the Ireland Singles & Doubles Championships will be held in the Cork venues of Fermoy, Mitchelstown, Araglen and Kilworth, the first championships since Kingscourt in 2019. 
With 56 players entered and over 80 matches scheduled it will be a busy weekend for the organisers. The premier competitions, the Men's Open Singles and the Women's Open singles both have an entry of 9 players each. Noel O'Callaghan(Fermoy), the number 1 seed goes for his 25th Open Singles title while in the women's singles, the 2019 champion Aisling Hickey(Rossmore) is unseeded but is going for her 10th title.
In Doubles, Johnny O'Keeney & Darragh O'Donoghue(Fermoy & Araglen) are the top seeds while Katie Kenny & Majella Haverty(Castlebar) go for 3 in a row.
Other divisions are Men's B, C, D and Novice Singles, Intermediate and Novice Doubles and Women's D singles Novice Singles and Novice doubles.
Live results of all the divisions will be posted on the R2Sport website.
https://www.r2sports.com/tourney/home.asp?TID=39368

We are pleased to announce the Irish team selected for the 2021 World Racquetball Championships in Guatemala.
A six member team will compete in the event;
Aisling Hickey (Rossmore) and Majella Haverty (Castlebar) will compete in Women’s Singles, while Katie Kenny (Castlebar) & Antonia Neary (Arklow) will team up to compete in Women’s Doubles.
On the Men’s side, Eoin Tynan (Fethard) and Ken Cottrell (Kilkenny) will compete in Men’s Singles and team up for Men’s Doubles.
The International Racquetball Federation World Championships will take place in Guatemala City from 1st to the 7th of December. This is the 2020 Championships which was cancelled last year due to the pandemic.
Over 25 countries will compete for team and individual titles and also up for qualification is places in singles competition for the World Games in Alabama, USA in 2022.